From the “A miracle has occurred” department. It appears that the same people who are dumb enough to glue themselves to pavement to protest climate, apparently have no clue about online security of their own organization.
From what has been discoverd so far, it seems they ran their entire worldwide organization online, but apparently left all the document security settings “public”, so anyone can read them. The XR group seems completely oblivious to the fact that hundreds of their most secret internal documents are readable by anyone, anywhere in the world.
Almost ten years ago, we had Climategate, in which scientists were found to be playing fast and loose with data and techniques to achieve desired results in climate science. Now, it’s the activists turn with ‘XRGate’.
XR is mostly UK based, and UK journos have been looking at the publicly accessible documents. James Delingpole and Paul Homewood of the UK both have done investigative work. Excerpts of both articles they have written today are below.
First, Delingpole:
Exposed? Soros on List of Mega-Rich Extinction Rebellion Backers
An anonymous source claims to have extracted lots of documents from Extinction Rebellion’s computer database and has put them up online.
The documents, if genuine, seem to have been exposed through carelessness on the part of Extinction Rebellion, not a computer hack. Anyway, Paul Homewood has been filleting some of the best bits and here is what he has found.
If verified, this confirms Extinction Rebellion is disturbingly flush and well-funded: over £1 million raised this year, half of it still unspent, according to the documents.
Major donors are said to include — inevitably — George Soros; Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corre (the saucy underwear and dildo tycoon, worth $48 million); the European Climate Foundation (which funnels money from far-left American philanthropic foundations to European climate projects); Greenpeace; the far-left Tides Foundation; and a little known Swiss asset management company, called Furka Holdings, founded by a banker with Russian links, which gave £50,000.
Another of their previously revealed donors is the popular beat combo Radiohead.
Here are some of things that the eco-fascist protest group has achieved for its sponsors so far:
- Prevented a man from saying goodbye to his dying father because their roadblock prevented him getting to hospital in time.
- Exposed the police to ridicule after one officer was filmed skateboarding to show how down with the green kidz he was during a protest at which Extinction Rebellion had blocked an entire London bridge by turning it into a mini-Glastonbury.
- Cost the taxpayer at least£16 million for extra policing, plus untold millions more for the cost of dealing with the 1200 Extinction Rebellion activists arrested in 11 days of protests.
- Threatened to ruin the summer holidays of thousands of travellers with a plan (happily nixed) to use drones to shut down Heathrow Airport.
- Cost London businesses upwards of £12 million in lost revenues.
Short of actually killing someone – they claim to be non-violent, though let’s see how long that one lasts – it’s hard to imagine what Extinction Rebellion could do that they haven’t done already to show what very nasty pieces of work they are.
So why would anyone wish to give such a wickedly unpleasant organisation money?
One reason, perhaps, is the gulf between how Extinction Rebellion presents its aims publicly and what it actually believes privately.
As was noted in a recent report by Richard Walton – former head of the Metropolitan Police’s Counter-Terrorism Command – Extinction Rebellion is a hard-left extremist organisation with anti-Semitic associations.
“Those encountering Extinction Rebellion should be under no illusions about just how destabilising and extremist their agenda is. Not only is it unclear how their three formal demands could realistically be satisfied, but also it appears unlikely that their actions would end even if government committed to trying to implement them. The words of Extinction Rebellion’s founders and its posts on social media make clear that the objective is system change. This means bringing down our existing democratic system—which several of the campaign’s leading figures hold in contempt—and causing rapid economic disaster for the country. The proponents of this course of action have no serious explanations for how the country would function if their demands were implemented.”
Full story here
Paul Homewood:
Is George Soros Funding Extinction Rebellion?
https://xrdump.home.blog/2019/07/27/the-dump/
An enterprising individual has got hold of a lot of documents from Extinction Rebellion’s computer database.
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There are all sorts of files on show, containing so much detailed information that they must be genuine. Many contain details on tactics etc.
The one below caught my eye, particularly the third aim, which rather gives the lie to XR’s defenders who say that they are not a bunch of anarchists.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gN92NvQEAw4MJ5rNAf3kVIJtLcc3KDUJVVYHQjtB-9E/view
But the real thing I wanted to focus on is the funding side.
There is one spreadsheet file, which keeps track of fundraising projects:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V3iPUltW8MJBdILkmQJRrz4gR9AO46vqf0wWCiJwOJ8/edit#gid=0
And on the Team 2 tab, listing major donors, we find an entry for George Soros. Intriguingly, the amount has been blanked out, the only donation where this has happened.
One wonders what they want to hide, if the amount is to be kept secret even from their own staff!
In fact, XR are remarkably open about their financing, as their own website links to their list of bank transactions (see “our payments to date”:
Full story here
And it continues, just this morning, another XR document, from “mikexr”, was made available by the anonymous source, and it is chilling. They plan to shut down airports in Europe with drones.
Excerpts:
Action proposal for “The European Pause”
This document is an action proposal to pause all flights from airports in Madrid, Paris and either Berlin or Frankfurt (TBD). This will start from October 10th. Dates, locations and other details are preliminary, but could change if new and preferable ideas are forthcoming. Following a 3 week expedition to Europe, speaking with activists to evaluate enthusiasm and probable capacity, the approach outlined below was devised. The strategy mirrors the Heathrow Pause proposal, with local modifications where necessary, and has the potential to cause major, effective disruption with modest numbers of activists.
I. Overview of proposed action
It is important to emphasise that this action is entirely peaceful and non-violent. There is no threat to aircraft, and therefore life, at any point. This is because no drone and aircraft will be in the same area at any time. We pause flights by flying drones at head height in the vicinity of the airports before any plane approaches the airport, and thus the authorities are obliged to close the airspace; simply, we are there first. Safety is further embedded in every aspect of the action by the 9 safety rules listed in section III.
Step-by-step guide to pausing an airport’s operations:
Publicly declare plan to disrupt the airport a month ahead of time
Determine area in which drone flight of any height is entirely prohibited (this is between 1.5km and 8km radius, TBC by French and German land Spanish lawyers ASAP).
Recruit around 100 rebels per airport who are willing to go to jail
Provide full legal briefing, training, and as much legal support as possible to these rebels
Coordinate large-scale accompanying protests near to the airports, demonstrating broad support for significant disruption while showcasing the creativity and beauty of The European Pause through art, education etc.
On the first day of the pause, before first flights are scheduled, at least two rebels fly drones at head height within this exclusion zone. They then inform authorities of this and wait to be arrested. The airspace is now closed, as we were there first (as the authorities were informed a month ahead of).
To continue the pause, rebels then fly drones within the exclusion zone throughout the day. These rebels should be spread out in both where they operate and when they do so.
Continue until end of scheduled flights, and then repeat the following day.
II. Context of action
This action strategy is extremely efficient in terms of disruption and economic pressure on the authorities, compared to numbers of activists willing to go to jail per day – around 15-25 people to entirely close the airport.
We should therefore fully leverage this strategy whilst still possible. The window of opportunity for this action will be closed, by technological or other means; we just don’t know when.
The 2025 decarbonisation demand is based on the IPCC ‘10-12 years to save the world’ report, but applying principles of climate justice such that the global north and south decarbonise in a relatively just way.
Carbon neutrality by 2025 is a moderate demand, given that IPCC predictions are likely very conservative, yet we are on track to drastically overshoot targets across Europe.
Not meeting this demand likely ensures extinction of most life on Earth
We needs to show the climate movement to be truly pan-European; this is a perfect opportunity to show the true power of rebels outside the UK.
Psychologically, this will prompt fear of contagion by the authorities. The authorities may make unforced errors (e.g. attempts at disproportionate repression), fuelling blowback in the movements favour.
The European Pause’s Theory of Change draws on relevant data to see what works: open, accountable, mass participation civil disobedience; nonviolent actions that are respectful to everyone and involve personal sacrifice from participants; actions that build pressure through economic and social disruption. Actions that follow this model will lead to the necessary system change through our three Demands being met. We submit that this action proposal includes all these elements, and provides a way in which any wishing to act on the truth can do so.
This Heathrow action proposal opens up unique and major strategic possibilities. The peaceful use of drones leads to the closure of the airport. No other tactic can create such decisive economic disruption with the same reliability while being completely safe. In the face of such substantial but peaceful economic disruption, taken by people of obvious good conscience, the authorities are presented with a dilemma in how to react. It should be noted that a significant number of people have already shown interest in participating in this action.
The proposal thus incorporates two key features of successful rebellions: significant economic disruption, and either state capitulation or “filling the jails”. These outcomes will heighten pressure and change the national conversation (move the Overton Window). They will break the “Fear Barrier” identified in the Egyptian Revolution. When enough people are prepared to risk going to prison, they and others will have overcome the main obstacle to successful rebellion: fear. Fear is the way governments control people. Once the fear is gone, the way is clear for our three Demands to be met, and the necessary system change can take place.
Unfortunately, the data suggests that people being willing to go to prison is an essential part of bringing about the needed system change. We will ensure that those who are willing to go to prison will be supported in doing so. No one will be placed under any pressure to do this. We will help people to make informed decisions about their actions, asking them to consider best and worst case legal scenarios, and the impact on their personal lives. We will do our best to mitigate for power in all decision making processes and are open to ideas. We will also provide additional support to those from diverse backgrounds wishing to participate in this action in any way, and ensure the action includes a range of ways to engage and participate, not all of them arrestable/imprisonable.
NB. It is important to note and be aware that those coming from white and middle class backgrounds will likely have different / better experiences of the criminal justice system, as compared to people of colour and of lower socio-economic status.
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IV. Reasons for timing of action
– Rebels from across Europe are already coming together for rebels without borders action
– It is expected that the Heathrow Pause on September 13th will drive up rebel participation for the European pause
– Can learn from Heathrow Pause to improve the European Pause.
– The authorities may find ways to counter this type of action (changing laws, prohibiting drones which can fly near airports etc), so this should be pursued with urgency.
– Pausing three airports simultaneously just 3 weeks after the Heathrow Pause will be significant pressure building
– Starting on 10th gives rebels 3 days to participate in the blockades, starting October 7th, before carrying out the action
– Having 3 days of blockade before the action builds substantial pressure on the authorities
o A variety of actions, such as the DLR action, contributed to success of the April rebellion. The media like variety and will ‘lose interest’ unless things change.
This is a developing story, there will be more coverage as journalists comb through the cache of documents.
UPDATE:
Josh come through as usual:
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So, on a scale of one to say Brexit, just how much damage could they do to the British economy compared to government incompetence?
Certainly makes the incompetent leadership FAR more “representative”, doesn’t it?
On that scale; I would call it “barely a scratch”. I suppose they are trying.
I did have a good laugh at them trying to prepare for societies collapse and them taking over. They’ll have some stiff competitions, and I’m confident they won’t be the ones to win. Useful idiots have a limited use.
Most interesting thing to me is how such a small band of nobodies came to be suddenly celebrated in the UK media long before they did anything in the UK. I spoke to a well-intentioned homeless young individual on the local canal making his way to London before events. He fitted the young anarchist stereotype quite well, but seemed unaware of the contradiction that he was responding to a mass-organization call. Nothing a job and/or a girlfriend couldn’t fix.
Was this really any kind of a grass-roots event, or one primed with a cash injection from above, by somebody who is familiar with how to operate the modern day equivalent of rent-a-mob? Political organizations have often had the willing man-power, and commercial interests often the money when seeking to achieve the same ends with a marketing campaigns. The two are not mutually exclusive.
“Most interesting thing to me is how such a small band of nobodies came to be suddenly celebrated in the UK media long before they did anything in the UK.”
Because they’re all funded by the same people?
The media are no longer anything to do with real journalism (if they ever were), they’re just paid marketing.
Same thing with AOC. Went from bartender to ball buster and dumber than a box of rocks.
Noticed that her campaign manager/handler (a true communist) abruptly resigned last Friday. Turns out he is under investigation for evading Federal election laws.
The IPCC and the EU have been doing this for years, getting and funding NGOs and “Civil Society” to attend meetings, then claiming widespread support because of all the paid-for support they are getting.
There is obviously a high level Green Blob HQ somewhere, executing plans.
The Bilderberg Group.
I look at the organizational structure, and read the planning for shutting down airports, and have to marvel at it. The people running this are not idiots at all, at least from the standpoint of practical action. What they plan to do is actually easy – destruction is far easier than creation. That is apart from how they do it. The “how” part is really very well organized and thought out.
These people could be employed to make a very successful business, creating wealth and thus human well being. I find it tragic that such talent is being completely wasted.
Yes. As always, currently unemployed, undirected, or misdirected, human energies could achieve so much. This can become a severe problem when some form of a political leader finds a way to harness those energies towards their own nefarious purposes.
I do worry that history will repeat itself in my lifetime, and the people finding “causes” and scapegoats seem to be largely coming from the authoritarian enviro-Left, not from Donald Trump or Boris Johnston (latest UK Prime Minister).
It doesn’t really take much intelligence to realize that we live in a society whose infrastructure was built with the assumption that no-one would ever attack it. But shutting it down is not even their goal; the goal is to provide photo-ops for their collaborators in the media to exploit.
All this nonsense exists solely to give the media something to report on, which the government can then point at as reason to do what they want to do but the voters don’t want them to do.
The Media-Government-Activitst Complex is a much larger threat to society than the Military-Industrial Complex ever was.
I’m not sure about your evaluation of the relative threat, but I have to hand it to you for coining a superb descriptive title for the “Media-Government-Activist Complex.” Fine job, MarkG, fine job!
This entire story shifts in the realm of internationally funded terrorism. And no one seems to really care. However be advised that…
Should a weirdo decide to glue himself in an awkward position on my board, then, as most of my peers, I’ll public address the passengers to help with the security issue, namely to unglue and keep him restrained, whatever it takes.
Then I’ll issue an emergency call, land as soon as possible and let the authorities sort out the incident.
Which is for the perpetrator a very complex situation so, my advice, weirdos, don’t even try.
Shaking my head; face-palming; crying in despair– none of these are a sufficient expression of just how stupid people have become.
Their manifesto sounds like sedition /subversion to me. Slap them with charges for this and let the courts decide if they are guilty or not.
During these last few months they raised £180,000!! Unbelievable! So much wastage of money- try to find those funding sources and what are actual motives of these funders. Publish those in major blogs and news outlets. Send a letter to the prime minister describing those statistics which will be signed by respectable climate scientists. They are not only wasting precious police force, but also doing emotional damage to normal people. All those need to be exposed.
I did mean uber-rich. The damned spell check got past me.
I think “fiber-rich” was OK.
They are full of it!
They use the word “rebellion” and “rebels”. I don’t think they know the meaning of those words. By their definition ISIS was a “rebellion”.
I keep saying it: they need their own little island. No way to escape it. Food brought in by B52 airdrop from 25,000 feet. If they try to escape by swimming, robot boats and drones force them back. Keep an eye on the population drift toward DOWN. If any survive 10 years. it would be quite a surprise.
Exposing wimpy entitled hippies to the old prison tradition of forcible buggery is what’s called for here. Offhand, I can’t imagine what form of “ support” their leadership might have in place for that eventuality, and I think it’s worth finding out.
When I first read that big green banner “REBEL FOR LIFE” (I thought they were Pro Life ie. – Anti Abortion)
I guess I misconstrued it . . . LOL.
Yes, Jon P – deception, misdirection and dis-information are standard tactics for the deep Left. Stay alert for it – its everywhere.
What size drones were they thinking of? The small ones you can buy in toy shops, or perhaps larger ones as used for delivering parcels and medicines would be insufficient to shut down an airport unless whoever was running the airport got the wind up. Perhaps that is what they want, as happened at Gatwick.
But modern jet engines are designed to be able to eat geese without much damage, so unless they have a really large drone, the aircraft with just chomp them. And even if the aircraft misses them, in the unstable atmosphere that is around every large aircraft, the drones will be impossible to control. Remember that many light aircraft have become uncontrollable and destroyed in the wake of a large jet.
“Is George Soros Funding Extinction Rebellion?”
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Then why is he not an outlaw with an outstanding international arrest warrant? Why is Soros not treated as the puppet master and therefore responsible? Too much money? Too many lawyers? Too much elite? Too big to fail? Too protected species?
Why not give them more of what they wish? Douse them with super glue and leave them on the pavement. How would they go to the toilet I wonder.
They would go right on the pavement. . . lol
And let them clean it up afterwards, with maybe the shirts off their backs !!!
Background on Co-founder and stripper, Gail Bradbrook:
https://nowhere.news/index.php/2019/04/01/dr-gail-marie-bradbrook-compassionate-revolutionary-for-hire/
“Gail Bradbrook has spent the past 18 years on the pay-roll of charities, NGOs and political ‘think-tanks’ (like the Blairite/New Labour IPPR), being funded by J. P. Morgan Chase (which happens to be the UN’s bank), BT, Shell, Microsoft, CISCO, Panasonic, Goldman Sachs, BAE Systems, NEON Communications (whose ‘Director of Global Sales’, Lord Anthony Tudor St John, is heavily invested in 5G technology and also sits as trustee of Citizens Online), IBM, Unilever, N. M. Rothschild & Sons … you name it: the whole ‘in the club’ of corporate funny-handshake hegemony – to give ‘independent advice’ to government and help develop government strategies, policies and to define their objectives.”
https://nowhere.news/index.php/2019/04/06/political-charities-and-the-brave-new-world-of-professional-activism/
“Gail’s career as ‘professional activist’ begins at Business in the Community, one of the Prince’s Charities. BITC describes itself as “the leading authority on corporate community involvement in the UK” and a “business-led membership organisation made up of progressive businesses”.
Corporate talking heads from tip-to-stern, with a heavy focus on finance, digital-identification and the tech/data industries. Remarkable how so few notice the similarities between the rhetoric of the world’s industrial-financial elites (the Davos, globalist types), the UN, and that of certain factions within so-called ‘radical environmental’ groups.
If they can get away with this, then it’s no wonder they’re able to convince people to march, willingly and passionately, for having their breathing taxed and driving people further into fuel poverty.
Brave New World Order
Should you be unable to decipher all of the newspeak waffle on their website, or decode the many subtle allusions to carbon rationing, eugenics, and bringing about Huxley’s technocratic Brave New World, then you’re in luck, for Business in the Community have recently published their ‘Agenda for the UK’, entitled…
A Brave New World Report! ”
https://www.bitc.org.uk/resources-training/resources/research/brave-new-world-priorities-and-actions-inclusive-digital
Give kooks and attention seekers a proportional response, ignore them.
Elected local officials, or whoever controls the local police, should be responsive to the taxpayer and voter.
As a taxpayer and voter, I’d just tell the local officials and police to treat the kooks like any other pothole, rabid dog, drunk in the gutter, etc.
Some kook glues themselves to pavement?? Put up some traffic cones around them. Then have some kind of meter maid or dog catcher types take care of them. Give them a parking tickets, or charge them with loitering or some kind of law equivalent to public drunkeness. Local media can treat them like any other public nuisance, report it and drop it.
I note the link to https://xrdump.home.blog/2019/07/27/the-dump/ you gave is password protected.
Why are they online? Internet and computing are the peak of CO2 emitting communications methods. Major data centers use more energy than a small town. If only we had the free time to relentlessly attack them for their use of computing!
Do these disco sticks even realize they they won’t be able to get what they want without fierce opposition? Honestly, are we just gonna sit back and give into them? I think not! There will be a war! No-body is going to sit back and let the left just do as they wish! Underground Militia will prevail here, we aren’t stupid. They can control the media, the education, the courts, and what not, BUT we will still have the ability to fight back!
Sorry, could you repeat that? I was distracted stripping and cleaning my Benelli. 🙂
Off to El Paso are you?
No idea what you might be talking about, besides which I live a couple of thousand miles away. So, in the noble words of Jordan Peterson: no.
I looked it up (impossible though this might be for you to understand, I pay zero attention to the mainstream news) and see there was another mass shooting there. In other words, you’re openly admitting you’re so completely bereft of anything resembling human intellect that you equate gun ownership with mass murder. Wow, never thought I’d ever actually meet one, not even online. What’s it like to be a lobotomized zombie, anyway?
For some reason, my pointing out that you equated gun ownership with mass murder got deleted. So we’ll just leave it at that and let your stunning leap of intellect speak for itself.
OK, I think I understand why my reply keeps getting deleted. It was my use of a term describing a horrific form of criminality; the one you’re accusing me of. I’ll just leave it there and let your ridiculous adolescent troll remark speak for itself.
Let’s see if this one gets by: sure, Adam – if you’re going to be there. 😀
I think I understand you now Adam. In the fairytale world you inhabit, the police are always going to be there to protect you. May I recommend you check out the video footage of the Berkeley Antifa riot? The police can always be ordered to stand down when the puppets are doing their masters’ work.
Well, isn’t that a coincidence. I was cleaning my dual Italian Uberti revolvers with bird handles and 5.5 in barrel lengths (built for accuracy).
That Schofield they make is really quite tempting. 🙂
They could have saved lots of CO2, usefully, had they implemented the “drone strategy” at the airport nearest to the recent Google Summer Camp in Sicily.
From 2nd November 2012Alan Caruba
If a foreign nation had launched an attack on America to destroy its coal-fired plants, to shut down its coal mines, and to thwart its ability to drill for oil and natural gas, we would be at war with it.
Obama is at war with America. Between the waste of billions squandered on “Green” energy and the attacks on all aspects of the energy industries in America, the one reason to defeat Obama is your ability to turn on the lights, turn on your computer, and ensure that American business and industry has the energy necessary to exist and compete.
Just try to imagine what your life would be without adequate, reliable electricity.
By Alan Caruba. https://canadafreepress.com/members/1/AlanCaruba/5
H/T https://www.iceagenow.info/war/
Might be an interesting read if anyone feels so obliged.
https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Extremism-Rebellion.pdf
70- odd pages but they’re an influential think tank.
Can someone please provide a link to the Delingpole article? I find it surprising there isn’t one in the headpost, and I can’t see anything on his own website.
Methinks I smell over-eagerness to rely on just one source, Paul Homewood.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/03/delingpole-exposed-soros-on-list-of-mega-rich-extinction-rebellion-backers/